A 13-foot-wide hot pool formed over the winter in one of Yellowstone’s most active areas, and it could offer new insights ...

Ever been late because you misread a clock? Sometimes, the "clocks" geologists use to date events can also be misread.

Northern Ireland's Giant's Causeway draws close to one million visitors a year but their habit of wedging tiny coins in ...

Traveling around Eagle County, it is easy to wonder about the interesting geological features that dot the landscape. While ...

A worker removes rocks from a construction site at the end of Lemay Drive near the shore of Yellowknife Bay. Yellowknife has some great geology and geography that the city either ignores or destroys ...

New Curtin-led research has revealed that water played a far bigger role than previously thought in shaping Earth's first continents, transforming the planet's early crust and helping to build the ...

The Petroglyphs along the Bangucheon Stream in Ulsan's Ulju-gun County, or prehistoric images carved on rock that contain the ...

Along the eastern shore of Hudson Bay in Canada's northeastern province of Quebec, near the Inuit municipality of Inukjuak, resides a belt of volcanic rock that displays a blend of dark and light ...

The rocks are even older than originally thought. Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent. ... Earth formed about 4.6 billion years ago, during the geological eon known as the Hadean.

The result: The rocks were about 4.16 billion years old. The different methods "gave exactly the same age,” said study author Jonathan O'Neil with the University of Ottawa. The new research was ...

NASA has released the clearest view of Mars to date, with blue rocks observed across the planet's landscape. The images were captured by the Perseverance rover as it explores the planet.